Improvement in opening and shutting devices for railroad-car windows



tnitl ittt danni ctn-im JOHN FANNON LAsH, or TORONTO, CANADA-.1

" Letters Patent No. 109,326, dated November 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN OPENING AND SHUTTING DEVICES FOR RAILROAD-CAR WINDOWS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

to said windows, for the purpose of opening and shutting them'in the manner invented by me, of which the following is :t specification.

Nature mul Objects of 'the Invention.

My invention relates to car-windows which may be opened from either side, to provide necessary ventilatien, without admitting dust.

1t consists in a device combining the functions oi' a hinge and fastening, substantially asv hereinafter described and,in'ther, in the combination*therewith of a hinged strut, to retain the window Open from either side, and assist inelosing.

Description of -th'e Accompany/ng Drawing.A

Figure -1 is a view of the window, open.

Figure 2 is a view of the hinge and lock, open.

Figure 3 is a view of the hinge and Ioek,jc1osed.

Figures 4 and are views of the reverse sides ofthe hinge and lock.'-

I General Description.

In tig. l-A

D' is the,sash, and

B .and O', the dust-guards.

.In figs. A2, 3, ,4, :md5-

Ais a plate, screwed to the side of the carriage where the sash fits.

B is a part of the hinge which (le-taches from the plate A.

C is a'pznt ot' the hinge screwed to the sash.

L) and E are guides, to direct the hinge and to connect the sinne F is a ring or handle, to assist opening or closing the window. Y

G are clamps on the reverse side of B, to bind it to A when closed, thus"prev.nting any shake when the window is open. v

H is a iin-nge, to assist in closing.

l is a catch on B, on the reverse side, to fasten the hinge to A, thus securing the sash.

. A hinge and lock are attached to either side of the window. To Open it, ttige hold of' the ring or handle F, lift the catch I- ont of the notch in A, then shove the window open, as represented `in, the drawing, and the lock on the other side will act as a hinge.

The window can be opened in the same way from either side, the closed lock acting as n. hinge.

Claims.

I cla-iin as my invention Y 1. The combined clasp and hinge B O, provided -with one or more hooks, G, and a catch, I, to adapt it to operate in connection with the plate A, substan-` Dated at the said city of Toronto the thirteenth l day of September, A. D. 1870.

Witnesses: JOHN FANNON LASH.

E. M. GHADWIGK, E Both of Toronto, Barrie? Z. A. LAsH,

ters a't Law. 

